64 NATIVE VEGETATION AS AN INDICATOR 



Alkali-indicating plants not commonly forming the major 

 portion of alkali-land vegetation 



Inhabiting fhioist saline lands: 



Arrow grass (Triglochin marilima and T. palustris) L. (Across continent) 

 Alkali meadow grass (Puccinellia airoides. Nutt.) (Entire west. N. Mex.- 



Mont.) 



Marsh grass (Spartina gracilis. Trin.) (Oregon to Texas) 

 Trailing buttercup (Halerpestes cymbalaria. Pursh.) (Rocky Mts., n. 



seacoast) 

 Shooting star or American cowslip (Dodecalheon salinum. Nels.) (Western 



Wyoming, Utah, Idaho) 



Glaux (Glaux maritima. L.) (Subsaline soil west of Mississippi) 

 Aster (Aster angustus. T. and G.) (Colorado and Utah to Minnesota) 

 Aster (Aster pauciflorus. Nutt.) (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah) 

 Crepis (Crepis glauca. T. and G.) (West of Missouri to Nevada) 

 Plowman's wort (Pluchea camphorata) (Coast of Florida to Texas) 

 Mousetail (Myosurus apetalus. Gay) (Western North America) 

 Valeria (Valeriana furfurescens. Nels.) (Colorado and Wyoming) 

 Pyrrocoma uniflora. Greene. (Montana to Colorado and Utah) 

 Rush (Stir PUS nevadensis. Wats.) (Wyoming, California) 

 Tuber bubrush (Scirpus paludosus) 



Inhabiting soil not moist at the surface: 



Bud-brush (Artemisia spinescens. Eat.) (Colorado to Montana and west) 

 Aster (Aster zylorhiza. Nutt.) (Southcentral Wyoming. Naked, clayey, 



saline) 

 Pyrrocoma lanceolata. Greene (Saskatchewan. Northern Colorado and 



west to Nevada) 

 Flaveria angustifolia. Pers. (Eastern Colorado and New Mexico to 



western Texas) 

 Pepper grass (Lepidium montanum. Nutt.) (Montana to New Mexico 



and westward) 



Wild barley (Hordeum nodosum. L.) (Arizona to Alaska) 

 Wild rye (Elymus salinus. Jones) (Wyoming and Utah. Saline situations) 

 Goosefoot or pigweed (Chenopodium rubrum. L.) (Across continent north- 

 ward) 



Goosefoot or pigweed (Chenopodium soccosum. Nels.) (Southern Wyoming) 

 Monolepsis spp. (Colorado and westward. Saline soils) 



Botanically, probably half of the alkali-loving plants 

 belong to the Chenopodiaceae, or goosefoot family, which 



